August 31, 2008 • 10:10 pm 0
“Palin can become an inspirational figure and powerful symbol. The left senses this, which is why they want to discredit her quickly.” — William Kristol, Weekly Standard
Filed under: John McCain/Sarah Palin , attacks, John McCain, liberals, Sarah Palin
• 9:06 pm 1
The possibility of Hurricane Gustav hitting New Orleans during the RNC convention is a source of amusement for some.
Including DNC chair Don Fowler. Yah, that’s some hilarious stuff, Don. Jackass.
DNC Chairman Piece of Sh*t Gleefully Wishes for Hurricanes to Destroy, Kill for Political Gain
Which is more strange:
1. A Democrat mentioning God;
2. A Democrat mentioning God favorably;
3. A Democrat openly hoping for a hurricane to hurt and kill people in a city with a large population of minorities in hopes of scoring petty political points?
Filed under: Crazy liberals , Crazy liberals, Denver, Don Furber, flight, Gustav, Hurricane, liberal assholes, New Orleans
August 30, 2008 • 8:32 pm 0
New Orleans orders mandatory evacuation By BECKY BOHRER
Spooked by predictions that Hurricane Gustav could grow into a Category 5 monster, an estimated 1 million people fled the Gulf Coast Saturday — even before the official order came for New Orleans residents to get out of the way of a storm taking dead aim at Louisiana.
Mayor Ray Nagin gave the mandatory order late Saturday, but all day residents took to buses, trains, planes and cars — clogging roadways leading away from New Orleans, still reeling three years after Hurricane Katrina flooded 80 percent of the city and killed about 1,600 across the region.
The evacuation of New Orleans becomes mandatory at 8 a.m. Sunday along the vulnerable west bank of the Mississippi River, and at noon on the east bank. Nagin called Gustav the “mother of all storms” and told residents to “get out of town. This is not the one to play with.”
“This is the real deal, this is not a test,” Nagin said as he issued the order, warning residents that staying would be “one of the biggest mistakes you could make in your life.” He emphasized that the city will not offer emergency services to anyone who chooses to stay behind.
Filed under: Everything Else , category 5, flood, Gustav, Hurricane, Katrina, New Orleans, Ray Nagin
• 7:17 pm 3
“We may be seeing the first woman president. As a Democrat, I am reeling . . . That was the best political speech I have ever seen delivered by an American woman politician. [Sarah] Palin is as tough as nails… Good Lord, we had barely 12 hours of Democrat optimism… It was a stunningly timed piece of PR by the Republicans.” — Camille Paglia
Filed under: John McCain/Sarah Palin , Alaska, Camille Paglia, Governor, John McCain, Sarah Palin, vice-president
• 4:09 pm 0
McCain camp pushes back: More qualified than Obama
McCain aide Jill Hazelbaker:
It is pretty audacious for the Obama campaign to say that Governor Palin is not qualified to be Vice President. She has a record of accomplishment that Senator Obama simply cannot match. Governor Palin has spent her time in office shaking up government in Alaska and actually achieving results — whether it’s taking on corruption, passing ethics reform or stopping wasteful spending and the ‘bridge to nowhere.’ Senator Obama has spent his time in office running for president.
Ouch
Filed under: Barack Obama / The Messiah, John McCain/Sarah Palin , Alaska, Barack Obama / The Messiah, experience, Governor, Jill Hazelbaker, John McCain, Sarah Palin
• 3:31 pm 0
Townhall: Economic Myths by Walter E. Williams
Freedomnomics by John Lott, Ph.D.
Filed under: Everything Else , corporations, economic myths, Freedomnomics, John Lott, myths, The Government Engineered Mortgage Crisis, Walter Williams
• 1:25 pm 0
Liberals are so full of tolerance and compassion, aren’t they?
Brietbart: Michael Moore on Hurricane Gustav Hitting During RNC: ‘Proof There is a God in Heaven’
Filed under: Crazy liberals , asshole, Crazy liberals, filmmaker, fraud, Gustav, Hurricane, liar, manchild, Marxist, Michael Moore, narcissism, narcissist, Republican National Convention, RNC, uneducated Marxists who make millions from dishonesty
• 12:40 pm 0
Hillary Clinton makes a classy gesture toward John McCain’s vice-presidential nominee.
CNN: Clinton congratulates Palin
Hillary Clinton praised the historic nature of John McCain’s vice presidential selection in a brief statement released Friday that was eagerly anticipated by both presidential campaigns.
“We should all be proud of Governor Sarah Palin’s historic nomination, and I congratulate her and Senator McCain,” Clinton, the first woman to win a presidential primary, said in the statement. “While their policies would take America in the wrong direction, Governor Palin will add an important new voice to the debate.”
The McCain campaign has made little secret of the fact the selection of Palin — the first woman to appear on a Republican presidential ticket — was in part designed to court supporters of Clinton’s White house bid, some of whom feel the New York senator was treated unfairly during the primaries because of her gender and remain wary of supporting Obama.
Palin directly mentioned Clinton by name in her acceptance speech earlier Friday, saying, “Hillary left 18 million cracks in the highest, hardest glass ceiling in America. But it turns out the women of America aren’t finished yet, and we can shatter that glass ceiling once and for all.”
Filed under: John McCain/Sarah Palin , 2nd Amendment, Alaska, congratulation, Governor, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, pro-life, right to self defense, Sarah Palin, vice-president
August 29, 2008 • 7:02 am 0
UPDATE: FoxNews reporting that Governor Sarah Palin (AK) is John McCain’s vice-presidential selection.
Gov Sarah Palin (AK)
Fox: McCain to Name VP Pick on Friday; Pawlenty, Romney Appear to be Out of Running
Speculation about who John McCain would name as his running mate focused on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin after reports circulated early Friday that two short-listers — Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty — were out out of the running.
Adding fuel to the Palin possibility was a report that a charter aircraft from Anchorage had arrived in Dayton, Ohio, where McCain has scheduled a noon ET rally to announce his choice.
Palin is considered a rising star in the Republican Party. She is the state’s first female governor, the mother of five — and at 44 is its youngest chief executive.
Filed under: John McCain/Sarah Palin , Alaska, Governor, John McCain, Sarah Palin, Tim Pawlenty, vice-president
• 2:18 am 0
The shameless and incompetent James Carter just has to run his mouth every now and then.
USA: Carter: McCain ‘milking’ POW time By Alan Gomez
Former president Jimmy Carter called Republican presidential candidate John McCain a “distinguished naval officer,” but he said the Arizona senator has been “milking every possible drop of advantage” from his time served as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
As opposed to John Kerry, who mentioned his service in Vietnam every few hours.
If anything, McCain hasn’t mentioned what he endured often enough. And it is usually other people who mention McCain’s POW experience, not McCain.
Filed under: Crazy liberals, Everything Else, John McCain/Sarah Palin , Crazy liberals, Jimmy Carter, John McCain, military, POW
• 12:00 am 2
If you doubt that Dems want to lower the morale of the American people as much as they can, just ask Vice-Presidential nominee Joe Biden, who did his best to ignore the positive and accentuate the negative at the Democrat misery-fest:
But today that American dream feels as if it’s slowly slipping away. I don’t need to tell you that. You feel it every single day in your own lives.
I’ve never seen a time when Washington has watched so many people get knocked down without doing anything to help them get back up. [Many of us prefer that government stay the fuck out of our lives. -- Ed.] Almost every night, I take the train home to Wilmington, sometimes very late. As I look out the window at the homes we pass, I can almost hear what they’re talking about at the kitchen table after they put the kids to bed.
Like millions of Americans, they’re asking questions as profound as they are ordinary. Questions they never thought they would have to ask:
* Should mom move in with us now that dad is gone?
* Fifty, sixty, seventy dollars to fill up the car?
* Winter’s coming. How we gonna pay the heating bills?
* Another year and no raise?
* Did you hear the company may be cutting our health care?
* Now, we owe more on the house than it’s worth. How are we going to send the kids to college?
* How are we gonna be able to retire?
That’s the America that George Bush has left us, and that’s the future John McCain will give us. [No it's not. Liar. -- Ed.] These are not isolated discussions among families down on their luck. These are common stories among middle-class people who worked hard and played by the rules on the promise that their tomorrows would be better than their yesterdays.
That promise is the bedrock of America. It defines who we are as a people. And now it’s in jeopardy. I know it. You know it. But John McCain doesn’t get it.
Are you inspired yet?
And there you have the ultimate goal of Biden and the Dems: demoralize you, anger you, depress you, make you feel like your life is much worse than it is. Why? So the self-appointed saviors known as the Democrat Party can look like a reasonable alternative. Making promises is alot easier when things are going poorly. And if things aren’t going poorly, exaggerate and lie enough so that people begin to think they are.
Yes, the economy has not been doing as well as it could. Yes, fuel and food prices have gone up. Yes, many illiterate idiots homeowners have lost their homes or struggled to pay their mortgage.
Ask yourself why the economy is in the state it is in, and you should understand that Democrats have a lot of nerve to point fingers when THEY have engineered the $4 a gallon gas, THEY have engineered the higher food prices, and THEY have engineered the increases in foreclosures.
Recession On Hold– Poverty & Unemployment Decline During Bush Years by Gateway Pundit
Filed under: Crazy liberals , Crazy liberals, dishonesty, economy, Joe Biden
August 28, 2008 • 9:32 pm 0
Intimidation you can believe in!
Part-time Senator and full-time Messiah Barack Obama doesn’t like criticism, especially if it’s remotely true or legit. Recall billionaire Harold Simmons who recently paid for an ad which (accurately) connected Senator Infanticide to 1960s terrorist Bill Ayers. Well, Obama doesn’t really like the connection being made despite the fact that Ayers was instrumental in the launching of Obama’s political career. When you can’t get what you want by asking, try intimidation. First Amendment wha?
Obama general counsel Bob Bauer today sent a second, sharper letter to the Justice Department, directly attacking the Dallas billionaire funding a harsh attack ad, Harold Simmons.
“We reiterate our request that the Department of Justice fulfill its commitment to take prompt action to investigate and to prosecute the American issues Project, and we further request that the Department of Justice investigate and prosecute Howard (sic) Simmons for a knowing and willful violation of the individual aggregate contribution limits,” he wrote.
Um, Counsel, his name is Harold, not Howard. If you’re going to urinate on the First Amendment, atleast get the name of your victim correct.
He called the group’s activities “patently illegal.”
Bauer made the case that Simmons’ group fulfilling its a real nonprofit charter because it hasn’t spent any money on anything other than attacking Obama.
The American Issues Project released a statement responding to the letter.
“Having failed in its attempts to get our legal, factual and fully-supported ad off the air, Barack Obama’s campaign now wants to put our donors in prison for exercising their right to free speech,” said Ed Martin, the group’s president. “These over-the-top bullying tactics are reminiscent of the kind of censorship one would see in a Stalinist dictatorship, with the only difference being that those guys generally had to wait until they were in power to throw people who disagreed with them into jail.”
Ha, when you’re The Messiah, there’s no need to wait for power before you officially exercise it.
A profile of terrorist/hypocrite/asshole Bill Ayers
And the ad that Obama wants shut down:
Speaking of shutting down, Stanley Kurtz, a Harvard-educated social anthropologist and a writer for the National Review, recently tried to get the University of Illinois at Chicago to release records pertaining to Obama and unrepentant terrorist/thug Bill Ayers. (Ayers is a professor at the U of I. He should be in prison for life with his terrorist/thug wife, but surveillance violations got them both of the hook. I guess America isn’t so bad after all, eh, Bill?) Ayers and Obama worked on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC). National Review describes CAC as:
“a major education reform project, proposed by Ayers, which was underwritten by a $49.2 million grant from the Annenberg Foundation, complemented by another $100 million in private and public funding. The project ran for about five years, beginning in 1995.”
The CAC records, said to comprise 70 linear feet of files, have long been maintained at the library of the UIC, the public university where Ayers teaches. This summer, Kurtz made an appointment to review them and, after being assured access, was blocked from seeing them by library administrators, who stammered about needing permission from the “donor” — whom they declined to identify. Kurtz energetically raised public awareness to the stonewalling, and the library finally relented this week.
UIC’s release of the records did not sit well with Obama supporters.
The Messiah is not to be questioned, so Kurtz’s audacity to dig deeper into Obama’s past got him the the Stalinist treatment.
As for terrorist/thug Bill Ayers, these are some of the violent activities he and his Weather Underground committed.
Filed under: Barack Obama / The Messiah , 1960s, academia, Barack Obama / The Messiah, Bernadine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, bombing, criminals, hippies, law school, National Review, Northwestern University, NRO, radical, radicals, Saul Alinsky, Stalinist, Stanley Kurtz, terrorist, thugs who belong in jail but work in academia instead, UIC, weather underground
• 8:57 pm 0
Dems and libs are working from the old playbook: make the economy look much worse than it actually is. When power is at stake, truth means nothing.
Economy shows vigor in Q2, but seen flagging By Mark Felsenthal
Naturally, the media is either ignoring the 3.3% increase, or it is giving it scant attention.
CBS and NBC Spike Big GDP Jump, ABC Gives It 13 Seconds By Brent Baker
Filed under: What Liberal Media? , 3.3%, economy, GDP, recession, What Liberal Media?
• 7:02 pm 0
Red State: McCain’s Vice President: Tim Pawlenty by: Erick Erickson
Tim Pawlenty, governor of MN
ABC: Minnesota’s Pawlenty Gets Call: He’s Not McCain’s VP Pick
Filed under: John McCain/Sarah Palin , Governor, John McCain, Minnesota, Tim Pawlenty, vice-president
August 27, 2008 • 7:15 pm 0
Some sage advice from an unlikely source. If only the rest of the egomaniacs in the entertainment industry would listen.
People: Kid Rock Vetoes Celebrity Political Endorsements By Eileen Finan
“I truly believe that people like myself, who are in a position of entertainers in the limelight, should keep their mouth shut on politics,” the rap-rock musician, 37, tells CMT Insider.
“Because at the end of the day,” he goes on to say, “I’m good at writing songs and singing. What I’m not educated in is the field of political science. And so for me to be sharing my views and influencing people of who I think they should be voting for … I think would be very irresponsible on my part.”
Filed under: Everything Else , Kid Rock, Politics
• 6:48 am 0
I guess Raul Castro’s Cuba hasn’t changed that much.
BBC: Cuba detains leading punk rocker by Michael Voss
The Cuban authorities have arrested one of the island’s leading punk rock musicians, Gorki Aguila of band Porno Para Ricardo.
He could face charges of dangerousness, which allow the authorities to detain people who are likely to commit crimes.
According to fellow band members, he was picked up by police at his home in Havana on Monday as the group were preparing to record their latest album.
The group’s lyrics are often critical of life on the communist island.
The head of Cuba’s illegal, but tolerated, Human Rights Commission, Elizardo Sanchez, confirmed the detention and said that so far no-one has been allowed access to visit him.
Another member of the band, which was formed about 10 years ago, lead guitarist Ciro Diaz, said he was told by the police that the 39-year-old musician would face charges of dangerousness.
Under Cuba’s penal code, the charge covers behaviours contrary “to the standards of communist morality”.
Habitual drunkenness, drug addiction and anti-social behaviour are all signs of a state of dangerousness, which carries a sentence of up to four years in jail.
There has been no comment on the detention by the Cuban authorities.
It is believed that Gorki Aguila could come before a judge on Thursday, although he has yet to be formally charged.
Communists have “morality” ?
Filed under: Everything Else , arrest, Cuba, Gorki Aguila
• 3:02 am 0
Flip-flops help vent Egyptians’ frustration by Ramadan Al Sherbini
Egyptians have found out that for less than two US dollars, they can safely vent their resentment at perceived lop-sided US policy in the Middle East.
In recent months, local vendors have been in good business, selling flip-flops decorated with the stars and stripes.
“These slippers are in high demand apparently because they provide the chance to express dissatisfaction with the American policies without running the risk of being arrested or beaten up in street protests against America,” Atta Fadl, a footwear vendor in the Islamic Cairo district of Al Sayeda Zainab, told Gulf News.
Fadl sells the footwear for 10 pounds ($1.8) per pair and says they are in high demand.
Egypt, a major US ally in the region, is the second biggest recipient of the American aid after Israel. American sentiment runs especially high in Egypt because the US is widely perceived as pro-Israeli.
The flip-flops are actually manufactured in China, which is capitalising by the large anti-US market in Egypt, a local street vendor told Gulf News.
As of yet, there has been no comment from Egyptian trade officials or the US embassy in Cairo.
Filed under: The Religion of Peace Files , anti-Americanism, Egypt, Flip-Flops, foot, shoes, The Religion of Peace
• 2:49 am 0
• 12:21 am 0
Washington Times: Catholics rap Pelosi’s abortion remarks — Dispute over church’s definition of life
Graphic from Free Republic.
Filed under: Abortion/Baby Killing , abortion, Cardinal Edward Egan, Cardinal Justin F. Rigali, Catholic Church, human life, liberal ignorance, Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, St Augustine, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
• 12:08 am 0
Liberals claim to honor free speech, but when the speech is directed at them, they quickly morph into crying toddlers.
And since we’re dealing with Senator Barack Obama, you can be sure the crying will be felt for miles. Truth and facts be damned.
AP: Obama seeks to silence ad tying him to 60s radical by JIM KUHNHENN
Obama’s target is an ad by the conservative American Issues Project, a nonprofit group that questions Obama’s ties to [Bill] Ayers, a founder of the Weather Underground organization that took credit for a series of bombings, including nonfatal explosions at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol four decades ago.
The lone financier of the anti-Obama ad, Texas billionaire Harold Simmons, was also one of the main funders of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth who targeted Kerry. Simmons, a McCain fundraiser, contributed nearly $2.9 million to the American Issues Project, according to documents filed by the group with the Federal Election Commission.
Fox News and CNN have declined to air the anti-Obama ad. But by Monday afternoon, the ad had run about 150 times in local markets in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia and Michigan, according to Evan Tracey, head of TNS Media Intelligence/Campaign Media Analysis Group, an ad tracking firm.
Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor said Obama supporters have inundated stations that are airing the ad, many of them owned by Sinclair Communications, with 93,000 e-mails. He called the ad false, despicable and outrageous.
“Other stations that follow Sinclair’s lead should expect a similar response from people who don’t want the political discourse cheapened with these false, negative attacks,” Vietor said.Sinclair offices were closed late Monday and officials there could not be immediately contacted.
“It seems they protest a bit too much,” American Issues Project spokesman Christian Pinkston said. “They’re going all of these routes—through threats, intimation—to try to thwart the First Amendment here because they don’t have an argument on merit.”
Obama’s career was merely born out of Bill Ayers’s home, but the public is not entitled to know this?
Filed under: Barack Obama / The Messiah , ad, American Issues Project, Barack Obama / The Messiah, Bill Ayers, Harold Simmons, John McCain, political ad, terrorist, the truth hurts, weather underground
August 25, 2008 • 1:45 pm 0
Schadenfreude isn’t ALWAYS bad. 
Politico: Netroots push back against MSM ‘bias’ by Michael Calderone
If you asked a random sample of progressive Democrats and liberal bloggers to describe the current state of political media, from CNN to The New York Times, there’s one word that’s unlikely to come up: “liberal.”
Filed under: Isn't It Ironic?, What Liberal Media? , irony, Isn't It Ironic?, media bias, What Liberal Media?
• 10:17 am 0
• 5:58 am 0
I grew up listening to Madonna (Louise Ciccone Ritchie) at a time when (1) she actually wrote great music, (2) people actually gave a damn about her. You know, the mid to late 1980s. After about 1992, her popularity slowly descended like Rosie O’Donnell’s mattress.
Sixteen years later, the Hillary Clinton of the music industry just refuses to go away gracefully. Malignant egomania forces Ms. Madonna to continue inflicting punishment on innocent Americans.
It’s bad enough when a 50 year old infringer of copyrights takes on a half-assed British accent (she was born in Michigan), practices Jewish mysticism (she was born Catholic, raised Catholic, made her money mocking Catholicism), finds adoption in Africa more attractive than America, and insists on prancing on a stage as though she was 18 again. Much worse is when she vomits her political opinions, which hit atleast some of us like multiple stink bombs.
Compared to this, the geriatric Rolling Stones look pretty good.
If you suspect I’m being harsh, consider Madonna’s recent and original comparison of a Republican politician to Adolph Hitler. (For an example of this painful stupidity, see this list by some hippie/academic. Ignore the tiny fact that the Nazi platform was 100% leftist.)
Could this highly original comparison be timed to coincide with the opening of her new$world$tour?
McCain camp lashes ‘outrageous’ Madonna
John McCain’s campaign has hit back at Madonna after the pop diva kicked off her world tour with a concert that bracketed the US presidential candidate with Adolf Hitler.
McCain campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds angrily condemned the segment of Madonna’s concert in Cardiff on Saturday that appeared to draw a comparison between McCain, Hitler and Zimbabwean strongman Robert Mugabe.
“The comparisons are outrageous, unacceptable and crudely divisive all at the same time,” Bounds said in a statement reported by Fox News.
Now, now, Mr. Bounds. Everyone already knows that John McCain routinely commits genocide and redistributes farm land to native blacks.
Filed under: Crazy liberals, John McCain/Sarah Palin , Adolph Hitler, Hitler, ignorance, John McCain, Madonna, stupid celebrities, Tucker Bounds, world tour
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